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Monday, December 6, 2010
LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL DAY
On this day in 1883 Ladies’ Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper was published for the first time. It became one of the few magazines to reach a circulation of over one million. Paid circulation is over 3,000,000.
But, why not let the folks at LHJ say it in their own words:
“...As the oldest, most respected women’s service magazine in the country, Ladies’ Home Journal has always focused on issues of crucial importance to millions of women. Since our first issue, in December 1883, we’ve covered an incredibly wide range of topics--from the latest medical research and consumer news to parenting know-how, workplace survival, good skin care, nutrition facts and much, much more. Every issue includes subjects as diverse as the lives of our readers, women who work both in and out of the home and who are wives and mothers as well. With top-quality research, analysis and reporting, Ladies’ Home Journal represents a standard of excellence that just keeps getting better after more than a century of service to America’s women. We both empower women and applaud their growing power. Our fifty year slogan has never been more true: Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman.”
Events December 6
1790 - The location of the capital city of the United States moved from New York City to Philadelphia. The city of Annapolis, Maryland, was the first peacetime U.S. capital. The U.S. Congress met at Annapolis November 26, 1783-June 3, 1784, following the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, formally ending hostilities between Great Britain and her former colony. New York was the capital from 1785 until 1790, followed by Philadelphia (on this day) until 1800 and then Washington, DC.
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified. Congress had passed the amendment on Jan 31, 1865.
1873 - America’s first international football (soccer) game was played in New Haven, CT. Yale defeated Eton (England) 2-1.
1902 - The 8¢ Martha Washington stamp was issued this day. The stamp was the first U.S. definitive or commemorative stamp to feature a woman.
1923 - The first presidential address to be carried on radio was broadcast from Washington, DC. President Calvin Coolidge addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a message to Japanese Emperor Hirohito expressing hope that gathering war clouds could be dispelled.
1944 - Red Bank Boogie, Count Basie’s salute to his hometown, was recorded on Columbia Records. The tune is a tribute to Red Bank, New Jersey.
1945 - The microwave oven was patented. During World War II, two scientists invented the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves. Installing magnetrons in Britain’s radar system, the microwaves were able to spot Nazi warplanes on their way to bomb the British Isles. The idea of using microwave energy to cook food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket. Called the Radar Range, the first microwave oven to go on the market was roughly as large and heavy as a refrigerator.
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S Truman. In the President’s words, “Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams wearing away the uplifted land. Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water, but as the last receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country.”
1948 - Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for almost 10 years and the redhead introduced such talent as Pat Boone, The Chordettes, Carmel Quinn, The McGuire Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, Steve Lawrence and Al Martino.
1950 - ‘America’s Sweetheart’, Shirley Temple, became Shirley Temple Black. She married Charles Black, a socialite and business executive from San Francisco.
1955 - New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won The $64,000 Question by answering a boxing question.
1957 - The first attempt by the U.S. at putting a satellite into orbit, the Vanguard rocket, blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 - Eileen Farrell debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC in the title role of Gluck’s Alcestis.
1960 - Gene Autry was attending the 1960 baseball winter meetings hoping to secure a broadcasting contract for KMPC, his Los Angeles radio station. The ‘Singing Cowboy’ wound up as the owner of the expansion Los Angeles Angels (when no one came forward to bid for the team, Autry made a bid of his own). The team became the showpiece for KMPC. The Angels played their first season in Wrigley Field (capacity 22,000), then rented Dodger Stadium and later moved to Anaheim.
1960 - Domino’s Pizza was founded by Thomas S. Monaghan. The first Domino’s opened in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
1968 - The Commissioner of Baseball, William Eckert was told, “Yer outta here!” after serving three years of his 7-year contract. Bowie Kuhn was his replacement and had as bad a time -- only for a longer period of time.
1969 - Musician Cab Calloway turned actor as he was seen in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of The Littlest Angel on NBC. The big band singer, known for such classics as Minnie the Moocher, became a movie star in The Blues Brothers (1980) with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd.
1969 - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye, by Steam, reached the #1 spot on the top 40. It stayed at the top for two weeks and was the only major hit for the group that later ran out of ... steam.
1969 - The Rolling Stones staged a rock concert at the Altamount Speedway in Livermore, CA for some 300,000 fans. The Stones hired the Hell’s Angels for security. Fans were beaten and one person, Meredith Hunter, was stamped and stabbed to death by a Hell’s Angel during the show. (The 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter told the story.)
1971 - It was payday for Jack Nicklaus. He received $30,000 for capturing the first Disney World golf tournament. His earnings for the season totaled $244,490.
1973 - Following the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, House Speaker Gerald Ford became the U.S.’s first appointed Vice President. Later, he became the nation’s first non-elected President upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1975 - Paul Simon’s album, Still Crazy After All These Years, was number one in the U.S. It was Simon’s first #1 solo album and it contained his first recording with Art Garfunkel since their 1969 breakup (My Little Town, which was also included on Garfunkel’s Breakaway album).
1978 - A referendum in Spain approved a new constitution. The new rules provided for a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary form of government.
1984 - Martina Navratilova’s 74-game winning streak over 11+ months came to an end. The 19-year-old tennis star was defeated by Helen Sukova in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
1984 - Two former Beatles debuted in two film releases this day. Paul McCartney’s Give My Regards to Broad Street and George Harrison’s A Private Function were finalized for theatre audiences.
1985 - John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24,000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert.
1986 - University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman Trophy on this day.
1988 - Singer Roy Orbison died of a heart attack in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He was 52 years old. Orbison recorded a long string of hits, beginning in the early 1960s. From Only the Lonely (1960) to Oh! Pretty Woman (1964), Orbison cracked the top-ten eight times and had 19 top-40 entries for Monument Records.
1992 - In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque, setting off two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.
1993 - Academy Award-winning Actor Don Ameche died in Scottsdale, AZ of prostate cancer. He was 85 years old. Ameche won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in "Cocoon" in 1986. He was versatile and popular, usually appearing as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also a popular radio master of ceremonies in the 1930s and 1940s.
1994 - Orange County, California filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. It was the largest municipality in the U.S. to go bankrupt.
1995 - New York Times columnist James Reston died in Washington. He was 86 years old.
1996 - Daylight (“No air. No escape. No time.”) opened in the U.S. The action adventure thriller stars Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman and Viggo Mortensen.
1997 - Unbeaten World Boxing Council welterweight champion Oscar de la Hoya stopped Wilfredo Rivera in the eighth round in Atlantic City, NJ to retain the WBC Welterweight Championship. De la Hoya, who won all five of his fights in 1997, improved to 27-0, 22 by knockout.
1998 - Astronauts on the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour completed the most difficult task of their 12-day mission, mating modules from Russia and the United States to create the first two building blocks of International Space Station. “We have capture of Zarya,” Commander Robert Cabana announced when the two pieces came together at approximately 9:07 p.m. EST. “Congratulations to the crew of the good ship Endeavour,” replied Mission Control. “That's terrific.”
1999 - The U.S. airline maintenance company SabreTech was cleared of conspiracy charges in the crash of a plane belonging to cut-rate carrier ValuJet, which killed 110 people. The company was convicted on a series of less serious charges, including the improper packaging of the oxygen cannisters thought to be responsible for the crash. The case involved 144 oxygen generators removed by SabreTech from other ValuJet planes and delivered to the ill-fated flight without the required safety caps or any markings indicating the canisters were hazardous. Investigators blamed the generators for starting a 2,200-degree cargo fire that brought down the DC-9 on May 11, 1996.
2000 - Actor Werner Klemperer died in New York at 80 years of age. Klemperer is best known for playing the bumbling Colonel Wilhelm Klink on TV’s Hogan’s Heroes.
2001 - Japan went into a financial recession for the fourth time in ten years as the GDP shrank 0.5%.
2002 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Adaptation, starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton and Maggie Gyllenhaal; Analyze That, with Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli and Cathy Moriarty-Gentile; Empire, starring John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Nestor Serrano and Delilah Cotto; and Equilibrium, with Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson, William Fichtner and Angus Macfadyen.
2003 - The first big snowstorm of the season in the Northeast U.S. created near whiteout conditions from Pennsylvania to Maine. A foot of snow delayed flights and created hazardous driving conditions that caused at least ten deaths.
2003 - Miss Ireland, 19-year-old Rosanna Davison, won the Miss World competition held at the beach resort of Sanya in China. Second place went to Miss Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, while the host country’s Miss China, Guan Qi, took third.
2004 - China Aviation Supplies Import & Export Group Corporation (CASGC) confirmed an order for 23 Airbus A320 aircraft in Beijing at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People attended by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder.
2005 - An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashed into a ten-story building in a civilian area of the Iranian capital Tehran. All 94 people on board and 34 residents of the building were killed.
2006 - A propane gas leak led to a large explosion in a Milwaukee WI industrial area. Three people were killed at the Falk Corp. transmission parts plant. 46 others were injured.
2006 - Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair headed for Washington to discuss strategic options in Iraq with U.S. President George Bush (II). Shortly before he left Britain, Blair told Parliament the war in Iraq is “not being won.”
2007 - IBM reported that it had made a breakthrough in converting electrical signals into light pulses. The feat brought closer the day when supercomputing, which has required huge machines, will be done on a single chip.
2007 - India overturned a 1914 law that banned women from tending bar in New Delhi. A January court ruling allowed women to do bar work in hotels and restaurants. Each of India’s 29 states has its own laws governing the sale of alcohol, and many restrict women working behind the bar.
2008 - A Montana state judge ruled that doctor assisted suicides are legal in that state.
2008 - At the 21st annual European Film Awards (in Copenhagen, Denmark), the best film award went to Gomorra, by Italian director Matteo Garrone. The movie chronicles crime and the Camorra (the mafia-like criminal organization) in Naples and Caserta, Italy.
2009 - President Evo Morales easily won reelection in Bolivia. Morales is a coca-grower at odds with Washington but hugely popular at home for empowering the long-suppressed indigenous majority.
2009 - The Kennedy Center Honors, the top U.S. arts awards, were presented by President Obama to rock star Bruce Springsteen, actor Robert De Niro, comedian Mel Brooks, jazz composer and pianist DAVE Brubeck and opera singer Grace Bumbry.
Birthdays December 6
1864 - William S. (Surrey) Hart
actor: silent screen star: Show People, Tumbleweeds, Wagon Tracks, The Disciple; director: Narrow Trail, Return of Draw Egan, Hell’s Hinges; died June 23, 1946
1886 - Joyce (Alfred) Kilmer
poet: Trees; killed in action in WWI July 30, 1918
1887 - Lynn (Lillie Louise) Fontanne
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Magnificent Yankee, Hallmark Hall of Fame [1964-65]; The Pirate [w/husband], Alfred Lunt; died July 30, 1983
1896 - Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin)
lyricist: Lady Be Good, The Man I Love, The Man That Got Away, Someone to Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm; died Aug 17, 1983
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt
photographer: 86 LIFE magazine cover photos: most famous: end of WWII Times Square photo of nurse kissing sailor; died Aug 24, 1995
1900 - Agnes (Robertson) Moorehead
Emmy Award-winning actress: Night of the Vicious Valentine, The Wild, Wild West [1966-67]; Bewitched, Dear, Dead Delilah, The Singing Nun, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, How the West Was Won, Raintree County, Magnificent Obsession, Show Boat, Johnny Belinda, Dark Passage, Jane Eyre, The Magnificent Ambersons, Citizen Kane; died Apr 30, 1974
1903 - ‘Poosh ’Em Up’ Tony (Anthony Michael) Lazzeri
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees [World Series: 1926-1928, 1932, 1936, 1937/all-star: 1933/A.L. single game record: 11 RBI’s: May 24, 1936], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1938], Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants; .300 hitter 5 times, drove in over 100 runs 7 times; died Aug 6, 1946
1903 - Kathryn McGuire
actress: Love a la Mode, The Border Wildcat, There It Is, Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo, Buffalo Bill on the U.P. Trail, Easy Going Gordon; died Oct 10, 1978
1913 - Eleanor Holm
International Swimming and Women’s Sports Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 meter backstroke [1932]; singer: Art Jarrett band; actress: Tarzan’s Revenge; Billy Rose’s Aquacade; interior decorator; died Jan 31, 2004
1920 - DAVE Brubeck
jazz musician: Take Five, LPs: Jazz Goes to College, DAVE Brubeck at Storyville, Time Out, Two Generations of Brubeck, Last Set at Newport, All the Things We Are
1921 - Otto Graham
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cleveland Browns [1950-55]: T-formation quarterback: NFL Player of the Year [1953, 1955]; coach: Coast Guard Academy, Washington Redskins; died Dec 17, 2003
1924 - Wally (Wallace Maynard) Cox
actor: Mr. Peepers, School House, The Adventures of Hiram Holiday, The Barefoot Executive, The Boatniks, Spencer’s Mountain, State Fair; TV panelist: Hollywood Squares; died Feb 15, 1973
1925 - Andy Robustelli
Pro Football Hall of Famer: LA Rams defensive end, New York Giants; league Player of the Year [1962]
1928 - Bobby Van (Bobby King Robert Stein)
actor, dancer: Escape from Planet Earth, Small Town Girl, Kiss Me Kate, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis; died July 31, 1980
1932 - Don King
heavyweight boxing promoter: Muhammud Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson
1939 - Steve Alaimo
singer: Every Day I Have to Cry Some; actor: The Wild Rebels, Stanley
1941 - Helen Cornelius
singer: There’s Always a Goodbye, [w/Jim Ed Brown]: I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You, Born Believer, If It Ain’t Love By Now, If the World Ran Out of Love Tonight, Lying in Love with You, Fools
1943 - Mike Smith
musician: keyboard, singer: group: DAVE Clark Five: Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Because, Catch Us If You Can; died Feb 28, 2008
1944 - Jonathan (Kenneth) King
singer: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon, Let It All Hang Out; songwriter, producer: Good News Week
1945 - Larry Bowa
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies shortstop, Chicago Cubs, NY Mets; manager
1945 - James Naughton
actor: The Paper Chase, Planet of the Apes [TV], The Glass Menagerie, The Cosby Mysteries, The First Wives Club, Oxygen; brother of actor David Naughton
1947 - Kim Simmonds
musician: guitar: group: Savoy Brown: Train to Nowhere, I’m Tired, A Hard Way to Go, A Little More Wine, I Ain’t Superstitious, Stay With Me Baby, Louisiana Blues
1948 - JoBeth Williams
actress: Kramer vs. Kramer, Poltergeist, The Big Chill, American Dreamer, Wyatt Earp, A Season of Hope, The Client, From the Earth to the Moon, Justice, The Rose Technique
1949 - Fred O’Donnell
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins
1949 - Doug Marlette
cartoonist: 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning; wrote and drew the syndicated comic strip Kudzu; died July 10, 2007
1951 - Gavin Kirk
hockey: WHA: Phoenix Roadrunners, Ottawa Nationals, Edmonton Oilers
1951 - Carl Summerell
football: E. Carolina, New York Giants QB
1953 - Tom Hulce
actor: The Heidi Chronicles, Fearless, The Inner Circle, Parenthood, Dominick & Eugene, Amadeus, National Lampoon’s Animal House
1955 - Steven Wright
stand-up comedian: deadpan, monotone; in film: Desperately Seeking Susan
1956 - Peter Buck
musician: guitar: group: R.E.M.: Stand, So Central Rain, Seven Chinese Brothers, Radio Free Europe
1956 - Rick (Paul) Buckler
musician: drums, singer: group: The Jam
1956 - Randy Rhoads
musician: guitar: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head [Metal Health], Slick Black Cadillac, The Wild and the Young, Mama We’re All Crazy Now; also played with Ozzy Osbourne group; killed in plane crash Mar 19, 1982
1957 - Steve (Stephen Wayne) Bedrosian
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves [Sporting News’ pitcher of the year: 1982], Philadelphia Phillies [Cy Young Award-winner: 1987/all-star: 1987], SF Giants [World Series: 1989], Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1991]
1957 - Andrew Cuomo
governor of New York State [2011- ]; NY State Attorney General 2007-2011; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [under President Bill Clinton - 1997-2001; son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo [1983-1994]
1962 - Ben Watt
musician: guitar, keyboard, singer: group: Everything but the Girl: Sean, Come on Home
1962 - Janine Turner (Gauntt)
actress: Northern Exposure, Behind the Screen, Cliffhanger, Steel Magnolias, Monkey Shines, Knights of the City
1967 - Kevin Appier
baseball [pitcher]: Fresno State Univ; Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Anaheim Angels
1972 - Brittany O’Connell
actress: X-rated films: Battlestar Orgasmica, Voices in My Bed, Thighs & Dolls, One of Our Porn Stars is Missing, Tongue in Cheek, Stiff Competition 2, Nasty Pants
1975 - Mark Campbell
football [tight end]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills
1976 - Michael Green
football [safety]: Northwestern Univ; MFL: Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks
1976 - Lindsay Price
actress: Eastwick, Lipstick Jungle, Pepper Dennis, Coupling, Jack & Jill, The Bold and the Beautiful, Beverly Hills, 90210
1978 - Darrell Jackson
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Seattle Seahawks
Chart Toppers December 6
1950All My Love - Patti Page
A Bushel and a Peck - Perry Como & Betty Hutton
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1959Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
In the Mood - Ernie Fields Orch.
Country Girl - Faron Young
1968Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Who’s Making Love - Johnnie Taylor
Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette
1977You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
How Deep is Your Love - Bee Gees
Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
1986The Next Tim I Fall - Peter Cetera with Amy Grant
Hip to Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
It Ain’t Cool to Be Crazy About You - George Strait
1995One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
Hey Lover - LL Cool J
Diggin’ on You - TLC
Check Yes or No - George Strait
2004Over And Over - Nelly featuring Tim McGraw
My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
Lose My Breath - Destiny’s Child
Nothing On But the Radio - Gary Allan
Enjoy all
Happy Bithday Peter Buck of R.E.M.
Monday, December 6, 2010
LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL DAY
On this day in 1883 Ladies’ Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper was published for the first time. It became one of the few magazines to reach a circulation of over one million. Paid circulation is over 3,000,000.
But, why not let the folks at LHJ say it in their own words:
“...As the oldest, most respected women’s service magazine in the country, Ladies’ Home Journal has always focused on issues of crucial importance to millions of women. Since our first issue, in December 1883, we’ve covered an incredibly wide range of topics--from the latest medical research and consumer news to parenting know-how, workplace survival, good skin care, nutrition facts and much, much more. Every issue includes subjects as diverse as the lives of our readers, women who work both in and out of the home and who are wives and mothers as well. With top-quality research, analysis and reporting, Ladies’ Home Journal represents a standard of excellence that just keeps getting better after more than a century of service to America’s women. We both empower women and applaud their growing power. Our fifty year slogan has never been more true: Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman.”
Events December 6
1790 - The location of the capital city of the United States moved from New York City to Philadelphia. The city of Annapolis, Maryland, was the first peacetime U.S. capital. The U.S. Congress met at Annapolis November 26, 1783-June 3, 1784, following the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, formally ending hostilities between Great Britain and her former colony. New York was the capital from 1785 until 1790, followed by Philadelphia (on this day) until 1800 and then Washington, DC.
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified. Congress had passed the amendment on Jan 31, 1865.
1873 - America’s first international football (soccer) game was played in New Haven, CT. Yale defeated Eton (England) 2-1.
1902 - The 8¢ Martha Washington stamp was issued this day. The stamp was the first U.S. definitive or commemorative stamp to feature a woman.
1923 - The first presidential address to be carried on radio was broadcast from Washington, DC. President Calvin Coolidge addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a message to Japanese Emperor Hirohito expressing hope that gathering war clouds could be dispelled.
1944 - Red Bank Boogie, Count Basie’s salute to his hometown, was recorded on Columbia Records. The tune is a tribute to Red Bank, New Jersey.
1945 - The microwave oven was patented. During World War II, two scientists invented the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves. Installing magnetrons in Britain’s radar system, the microwaves were able to spot Nazi warplanes on their way to bomb the British Isles. The idea of using microwave energy to cook food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket. Called the Radar Range, the first microwave oven to go on the market was roughly as large and heavy as a refrigerator.
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S Truman. In the President’s words, “Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams wearing away the uplifted land. Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water, but as the last receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country.”
1948 - Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for almost 10 years and the redhead introduced such talent as Pat Boone, The Chordettes, Carmel Quinn, The McGuire Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, Steve Lawrence and Al Martino.
1950 - ‘America’s Sweetheart’, Shirley Temple, became Shirley Temple Black. She married Charles Black, a socialite and business executive from San Francisco.
1955 - New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won The $64,000 Question by answering a boxing question.
1957 - The first attempt by the U.S. at putting a satellite into orbit, the Vanguard rocket, blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 - Eileen Farrell debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC in the title role of Gluck’s Alcestis.
1960 - Gene Autry was attending the 1960 baseball winter meetings hoping to secure a broadcasting contract for KMPC, his Los Angeles radio station. The ‘Singing Cowboy’ wound up as the owner of the expansion Los Angeles Angels (when no one came forward to bid for the team, Autry made a bid of his own). The team became the showpiece for KMPC. The Angels played their first season in Wrigley Field (capacity 22,000), then rented Dodger Stadium and later moved to Anaheim.
1960 - Domino’s Pizza was founded by Thomas S. Monaghan. The first Domino’s opened in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
1968 - The Commissioner of Baseball, William Eckert was told, “Yer outta here!” after serving three years of his 7-year contract. Bowie Kuhn was his replacement and had as bad a time -- only for a longer period of time.
1969 - Musician Cab Calloway turned actor as he was seen in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of The Littlest Angel on NBC. The big band singer, known for such classics as Minnie the Moocher, became a movie star in The Blues Brothers (1980) with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd.
1969 - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye, by Steam, reached the #1 spot on the top 40. It stayed at the top for two weeks and was the only major hit for the group that later ran out of ... steam.
1969 - The Rolling Stones staged a rock concert at the Altamount Speedway in Livermore, CA for some 300,000 fans. The Stones hired the Hell’s Angels for security. Fans were beaten and one person, Meredith Hunter, was stamped and stabbed to death by a Hell’s Angel during the show. (The 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter told the story.)
1971 - It was payday for Jack Nicklaus. He received $30,000 for capturing the first Disney World golf tournament. His earnings for the season totaled $244,490.
1973 - Following the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, House Speaker Gerald Ford became the U.S.’s first appointed Vice President. Later, he became the nation’s first non-elected President upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1975 - Paul Simon’s album, Still Crazy After All These Years, was number one in the U.S. It was Simon’s first #1 solo album and it contained his first recording with Art Garfunkel since their 1969 breakup (My Little Town, which was also included on Garfunkel’s Breakaway album).
1978 - A referendum in Spain approved a new constitution. The new rules provided for a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary form of government.
1984 - Martina Navratilova’s 74-game winning streak over 11+ months came to an end. The 19-year-old tennis star was defeated by Helen Sukova in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
1984 - Two former Beatles debuted in two film releases this day. Paul McCartney’s Give My Regards to Broad Street and George Harrison’s A Private Function were finalized for theatre audiences.
1985 - John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24,000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert.
1986 - University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman Trophy on this day.
1988 - Singer Roy Orbison died of a heart attack in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He was 52 years old. Orbison recorded a long string of hits, beginning in the early 1960s. From Only the Lonely (1960) to Oh! Pretty Woman (1964), Orbison cracked the top-ten eight times and had 19 top-40 entries for Monument Records.
1992 - In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque, setting off two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.
1993 - Academy Award-winning Actor Don Ameche died in Scottsdale, AZ of prostate cancer. He was 85 years old. Ameche won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in "Cocoon" in 1986. He was versatile and popular, usually appearing as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also a popular radio master of ceremonies in the 1930s and 1940s.
1994 - Orange County, California filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. It was the largest municipality in the U.S. to go bankrupt.
1995 - New York Times columnist James Reston died in Washington. He was 86 years old.
1996 - Daylight (“No air. No escape. No time.”) opened in the U.S. The action adventure thriller stars Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman and Viggo Mortensen.
1997 - Unbeaten World Boxing Council welterweight champion Oscar de la Hoya stopped Wilfredo Rivera in the eighth round in Atlantic City, NJ to retain the WBC Welterweight Championship. De la Hoya, who won all five of his fights in 1997, improved to 27-0, 22 by knockout.
1998 - Astronauts on the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour completed the most difficult task of their 12-day mission, mating modules from Russia and the United States to create the first two building blocks of International Space Station. “We have capture of Zarya,” Commander Robert Cabana announced when the two pieces came together at approximately 9:07 p.m. EST. “Congratulations to the crew of the good ship Endeavour,” replied Mission Control. “That's terrific.”
1999 - The U.S. airline maintenance company SabreTech was cleared of conspiracy charges in the crash of a plane belonging to cut-rate carrier ValuJet, which killed 110 people. The company was convicted on a series of less serious charges, including the improper packaging of the oxygen cannisters thought to be responsible for the crash. The case involved 144 oxygen generators removed by SabreTech from other ValuJet planes and delivered to the ill-fated flight without the required safety caps or any markings indicating the canisters were hazardous. Investigators blamed the generators for starting a 2,200-degree cargo fire that brought down the DC-9 on May 11, 1996.
2000 - Actor Werner Klemperer died in New York at 80 years of age. Klemperer is best known for playing the bumbling Colonel Wilhelm Klink on TV’s Hogan’s Heroes.
2001 - Japan went into a financial recession for the fourth time in ten years as the GDP shrank 0.5%.
2002 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Adaptation, starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton and Maggie Gyllenhaal; Analyze That, with Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli and Cathy Moriarty-Gentile; Empire, starring John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Nestor Serrano and Delilah Cotto; and Equilibrium, with Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson, William Fichtner and Angus Macfadyen.
2003 - The first big snowstorm of the season in the Northeast U.S. created near whiteout conditions from Pennsylvania to Maine. A foot of snow delayed flights and created hazardous driving conditions that caused at least ten deaths.
2003 - Miss Ireland, 19-year-old Rosanna Davison, won the Miss World competition held at the beach resort of Sanya in China. Second place went to Miss Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, while the host country’s Miss China, Guan Qi, took third.
2004 - China Aviation Supplies Import & Export Group Corporation (CASGC) confirmed an order for 23 Airbus A320 aircraft in Beijing at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People attended by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder.
2005 - An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashed into a ten-story building in a civilian area of the Iranian capital Tehran. All 94 people on board and 34 residents of the building were killed.
2006 - A propane gas leak led to a large explosion in a Milwaukee WI industrial area. Three people were killed at the Falk Corp. transmission parts plant. 46 others were injured.
2006 - Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair headed for Washington to discuss strategic options in Iraq with U.S. President George Bush (II). Shortly before he left Britain, Blair told Parliament the war in Iraq is “not being won.”
2007 - IBM reported that it had made a breakthrough in converting electrical signals into light pulses. The feat brought closer the day when supercomputing, which has required huge machines, will be done on a single chip.
2007 - India overturned a 1914 law that banned women from tending bar in New Delhi. A January court ruling allowed women to do bar work in hotels and restaurants. Each of India’s 29 states has its own laws governing the sale of alcohol, and many restrict women working behind the bar.
2008 - A Montana state judge ruled that doctor assisted suicides are legal in that state.
2008 - At the 21st annual European Film Awards (in Copenhagen, Denmark), the best film award went to Gomorra, by Italian director Matteo Garrone. The movie chronicles crime and the Camorra (the mafia-like criminal organization) in Naples and Caserta, Italy.
2009 - President Evo Morales easily won reelection in Bolivia. Morales is a coca-grower at odds with Washington but hugely popular at home for empowering the long-suppressed indigenous majority.
2009 - The Kennedy Center Honors, the top U.S. arts awards, were presented by President Obama to rock star Bruce Springsteen, actor Robert De Niro, comedian Mel Brooks, jazz composer and pianist DAVE Brubeck and opera singer Grace Bumbry.
Birthdays December 6
1864 - William S. (Surrey) Hart
actor: silent screen star: Show People, Tumbleweeds, Wagon Tracks, The Disciple; director: Narrow Trail, Return of Draw Egan, Hell’s Hinges; died June 23, 1946
1886 - Joyce (Alfred) Kilmer
poet: Trees; killed in action in WWI July 30, 1918
1887 - Lynn (Lillie Louise) Fontanne
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Magnificent Yankee, Hallmark Hall of Fame [1964-65]; The Pirate [w/husband], Alfred Lunt; died July 30, 1983
1896 - Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin)
lyricist: Lady Be Good, The Man I Love, The Man That Got Away, Someone to Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm; died Aug 17, 1983
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt
photographer: 86 LIFE magazine cover photos: most famous: end of WWII Times Square photo of nurse kissing sailor; died Aug 24, 1995
1900 - Agnes (Robertson) Moorehead
Emmy Award-winning actress: Night of the Vicious Valentine, The Wild, Wild West [1966-67]; Bewitched, Dear, Dead Delilah, The Singing Nun, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, How the West Was Won, Raintree County, Magnificent Obsession, Show Boat, Johnny Belinda, Dark Passage, Jane Eyre, The Magnificent Ambersons, Citizen Kane; died Apr 30, 1974
1903 - ‘Poosh ’Em Up’ Tony (Anthony Michael) Lazzeri
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees [World Series: 1926-1928, 1932, 1936, 1937/all-star: 1933/A.L. single game record: 11 RBI’s: May 24, 1936], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1938], Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants; .300 hitter 5 times, drove in over 100 runs 7 times; died Aug 6, 1946
1903 - Kathryn McGuire
actress: Love a la Mode, The Border Wildcat, There It Is, Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo, Buffalo Bill on the U.P. Trail, Easy Going Gordon; died Oct 10, 1978
1913 - Eleanor Holm
International Swimming and Women’s Sports Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 meter backstroke [1932]; singer: Art Jarrett band; actress: Tarzan’s Revenge; Billy Rose’s Aquacade; interior decorator; died Jan 31, 2004
1920 - DAVE Brubeck
jazz musician: Take Five, LPs: Jazz Goes to College, DAVE Brubeck at Storyville, Time Out, Two Generations of Brubeck, Last Set at Newport, All the Things We Are
1921 - Otto Graham
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cleveland Browns [1950-55]: T-formation quarterback: NFL Player of the Year [1953, 1955]; coach: Coast Guard Academy, Washington Redskins; died Dec 17, 2003
1924 - Wally (Wallace Maynard) Cox
actor: Mr. Peepers, School House, The Adventures of Hiram Holiday, The Barefoot Executive, The Boatniks, Spencer’s Mountain, State Fair; TV panelist: Hollywood Squares; died Feb 15, 1973
1925 - Andy Robustelli
Pro Football Hall of Famer: LA Rams defensive end, New York Giants; league Player of the Year [1962]
1928 - Bobby Van (Bobby King Robert Stein)
actor, dancer: Escape from Planet Earth, Small Town Girl, Kiss Me Kate, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis; died July 31, 1980
1932 - Don King
heavyweight boxing promoter: Muhammud Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson
1939 - Steve Alaimo
singer: Every Day I Have to Cry Some; actor: The Wild Rebels, Stanley
1941 - Helen Cornelius
singer: There’s Always a Goodbye, [w/Jim Ed Brown]: I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You, Born Believer, If It Ain’t Love By Now, If the World Ran Out of Love Tonight, Lying in Love with You, Fools
1943 - Mike Smith
musician: keyboard, singer: group: DAVE Clark Five: Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Because, Catch Us If You Can; died Feb 28, 2008
1944 - Jonathan (Kenneth) King
singer: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon, Let It All Hang Out; songwriter, producer: Good News Week
1945 - Larry Bowa
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies shortstop, Chicago Cubs, NY Mets; manager
1945 - James Naughton
actor: The Paper Chase, Planet of the Apes [TV], The Glass Menagerie, The Cosby Mysteries, The First Wives Club, Oxygen; brother of actor David Naughton
1947 - Kim Simmonds
musician: guitar: group: Savoy Brown: Train to Nowhere, I’m Tired, A Hard Way to Go, A Little More Wine, I Ain’t Superstitious, Stay With Me Baby, Louisiana Blues
1948 - JoBeth Williams
actress: Kramer vs. Kramer, Poltergeist, The Big Chill, American Dreamer, Wyatt Earp, A Season of Hope, The Client, From the Earth to the Moon, Justice, The Rose Technique
1949 - Fred O’Donnell
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins
1949 - Doug Marlette
cartoonist: 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning; wrote and drew the syndicated comic strip Kudzu; died July 10, 2007
1951 - Gavin Kirk
hockey: WHA: Phoenix Roadrunners, Ottawa Nationals, Edmonton Oilers
1951 - Carl Summerell
football: E. Carolina, New York Giants QB
1953 - Tom Hulce
actor: The Heidi Chronicles, Fearless, The Inner Circle, Parenthood, Dominick & Eugene, Amadeus, National Lampoon’s Animal House
1955 - Steven Wright
stand-up comedian: deadpan, monotone; in film: Desperately Seeking Susan
1956 - Peter Buck
musician: guitar: group: R.E.M.: Stand, So Central Rain, Seven Chinese Brothers, Radio Free Europe
1956 - Rick (Paul) Buckler
musician: drums, singer: group: The Jam
1956 - Randy Rhoads
musician: guitar: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head [Metal Health], Slick Black Cadillac, The Wild and the Young, Mama We’re All Crazy Now; also played with Ozzy Osbourne group; killed in plane crash Mar 19, 1982
1957 - Steve (Stephen Wayne) Bedrosian
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves [Sporting News’ pitcher of the year: 1982], Philadelphia Phillies [Cy Young Award-winner: 1987/all-star: 1987], SF Giants [World Series: 1989], Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1991]
1957 - Andrew Cuomo
governor of New York State [2011- ]; NY State Attorney General 2007-2011; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [under President Bill Clinton - 1997-2001; son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo [1983-1994]
1962 - Ben Watt
musician: guitar, keyboard, singer: group: Everything but the Girl: Sean, Come on Home
1962 - Janine Turner (Gauntt)
actress: Northern Exposure, Behind the Screen, Cliffhanger, Steel Magnolias, Monkey Shines, Knights of the City
1967 - Kevin Appier
baseball [pitcher]: Fresno State Univ; Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Anaheim Angels
1972 - Brittany O’Connell
actress: X-rated films: Battlestar Orgasmica, Voices in My Bed, Thighs & Dolls, One of Our Porn Stars is Missing, Tongue in Cheek, Stiff Competition 2, Nasty Pants
1975 - Mark Campbell
football [tight end]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills
1976 - Michael Green
football [safety]: Northwestern Univ; MFL: Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks
1976 - Lindsay Price
actress: Eastwick, Lipstick Jungle, Pepper Dennis, Coupling, Jack & Jill, The Bold and the Beautiful, Beverly Hills, 90210
1978 - Darrell Jackson
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Seattle Seahawks
Chart Toppers December 6
1950All My Love - Patti Page
A Bushel and a Peck - Perry Como & Betty Hutton
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1959Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
In the Mood - Ernie Fields Orch.
Country Girl - Faron Young
1968Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Who’s Making Love - Johnnie Taylor
Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette
1977You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
How Deep is Your Love - Bee Gees
Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
1986The Next Tim I Fall - Peter Cetera with Amy Grant
Hip to Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
It Ain’t Cool to Be Crazy About You - George Strait
1995One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
Hey Lover - LL Cool J
Diggin’ on You - TLC
Check Yes or No - George Strait
2004Over And Over - Nelly featuring Tim McGraw
My Boo - Usher & Alicia Keys
Lose My Breath - Destiny’s Child
Nothing On But the Radio - Gary Allan
Enjoy all
Happy Bithday Peter Buck of R.E.M.
